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Michaël Dudok de Wit is a Dutch animator, director, and illustrator based in London, born on the 15th of July 1953 in Abcoude, in the Netherlands. He won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2000 for Father and Daughter and was nominated for Best Animated Feature Film for The Red Turtle (2016).
Michaël Dudok de Wit won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2000 for Father and Daughter. The same film also won a BAFTA Award, the Grand Prix at Annecy, and the Grand Prix at Animafest Zagreb, along with dozens of other major awards.
All of Dudok de Wit's animated films, starting with Tom Sweep in 1992, use brush stroke drawing in ink and watercolour. The same technique appears in every subsequent work, including The Monk and the Fish (1994) and The Red Turtle (2016).
Dudok de Wit studied at the Geneva School of Fine Arts in Switzerland, then at the West Surrey College of Art and Design in England, graduating in 1978. The latter institution is now part of the University for the Creative Arts.
The Monk and the Fish is a 1994 short film by Michaël Dudok de Wit, made in France with the studio Folimage. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 67th Academy Awards and won the César Award for Best Short Film and the Cartoon d'or.
Michaël Dudok de Wit has written and illustrated children's picture books including Oscar & Hoo (HarperCollins, 2001) and Oscar and Hoo Forever (HarperCollins, 2003), both translated into various languages. He has also illustrated Dutch-language books published by Leopold in the Netherlands.